As an American, we deserve the derision. Please, continue shaming us, maybe some day people will get sick enough of it to try to prove them wrong.

That's probably asking too much, though.

As an American who usually gets mistaken for a Canadian while traveling, I know that some of us know they aren’t talking about us, but also that the people who they are talking about aren’t even in the conversation.

It’s effectively talking about people behind their back which is not that useful.

When I say "the uneducated states" I'm referring to general trends:

- lack of technological fluency

- lack of mathematical/scientific fluency

- lack of financial fluency

- lack of political fluency

- lack of critical thinking skills

- willful engagement with streaming psy-op platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Netflix, Tiktok

Netflix a wild one to include in that list, imo. What makes you think it's on the same level? If you're making some reference to "cultural importance" I would wager that ABC/CBS in the 90s had just as strong a pull as Netflix does today culturally.

Agreed. And one of those six maybe applies to me. So I don’t sweat it, unless someone is being very broad and loud with the finger pointing.

The right wing nut jobs are most definitely in the conversation here.

> "Europoors"

A term I don't think I've ever heard. Insulting America, on the other hand, is by orders of magnitude the favorite sport of the Internet.

You aren't here often, then? https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

OP here. I am American. We are the Uneducated fucking States.